The Short Story Contest

By exweedfarmer · May 16, 2019 · 514 · 6
  1. I feel very useful this morning. Someone has to finish dead last in every race and I've fulfilled that role in this case. What an honor.

    So, what did I do wrong? As we used to say around the chess board,
    "Study long study wrong." I over worked it, there was no real conflict, I had a female MC (not my long suit)... anyway, suckage abounded. No argument.

    I should stop calling the readers fools.
    "But they are fools!" Retorts my semi-objective ego.
    "Yes, but that's not going to change so why tell them about it?" insists my reasoning mind.
    "Reason: You are a pain in the ass but I'm going to have to give you that one."
    End of anti- political correctness phase, in creative writing at least.

    Try, try again.
    Some Guy and matwoolf like this.

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  1. Some Guy
    Yer only last cause I did'nt submit
    Some Guy, May 17, 2019
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  2. Iain Aschendale
    I won the...whatever...flash fiction contest and thought I'd sussed my audience. I was going to be the next...well, we know the member with all the crowns, don't we? And my next entry got zero votes. Nobody but nobody liked it. And I've taken a zero or two since. You and I are tied in the Short Story category except for one thing: You've got a hell of a lot more entries than I have. You're writing more, you're putting yourself out for the judgment of the mob membership much more often than I do. Remember, the first and only time I won, you tied me in Round 1. I know how you feel, but what happened later is not a loss, it's a Bronze, and there were a lot of people who went home with nothing.
    Iain Aschendale, May 17, 2019
  3. GrahamLewis
    I never before felt so guilty about winning a contest. How do I send the medal back?
    GrahamLewis, May 17, 2019
  4. exweedfarmer
    Graham it is not your fault that I wrote a bad story. I'm just mad at myself.
    exweedfarmer, May 18, 2019
  5. GrahamLewis
    Don't get mad -- get even.
    GrahamLewis, May 18, 2019
  6. Some Guy
    Don't be even. Be odd. Definitely. :D
    Some Guy, May 18, 2019
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